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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Democratization and the Information Revolution: A Global Analysis for the 1980s

Esslinger, Thomas A. (Thomas Andreas) 08 1900 (has links)
Comparative studies of democratization point to a multitude of explanatory factors, while often lacking empirical evidence and theoretical foundation. This study introduces the revolution in information technology as a significant contributor to democratization in the 1980s and beyond. Utilizing a cybernetic version of an evolutionary interpretation of democratization an amended model for 147 countries is tested by bivariate and multiple regression analysis. The focus of the analysis is on how the first-ever use of an indicator of information technology explains democratization. The overall findings show that information technology is a meaningful element in the study of democratization today.
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Políticas de C&T e desenvolvimento regional no Estado de São Paulo / Science and Technology Policies and Regional Development in São Paulo State

Vieira, David 17 August 2018 (has links)
Orientador: Sérgio Salles Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T03:55:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vieira_David_M.pdf: 1196811 bytes, checksum: ae87eb942fd4f1850b218f37b2f4b1eb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O objetivo desta dissertação está em identificar evidências pelas quais a Política recente de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação do Estado de São Paulo vêm incorporando a questão do desenvolvimento regional e qual o papel que essa desempenha para o sucesso do desenvolvimento social e econômico das regiões paulistas. A análise da literatura e de dados empíricos converge para a identificação de uma nova política de Desenvolvimento Regional para o Estado de São Paulo e suas microrregiões. Essa nova política tem na CT&I uma ferramenta essencial, capaz de gerar e agregar valor ao setor produtivo e assegurar a apropriação do conhecimento e da renda produzida à região. O principal resultado da dissertação está em identificar a relação entre proximidade geográfica, a formação de recursos humanos e geração de conhecimento, e a presença de setor produtivo, como variáveis chave para o sucesso de políticas de desenvolvimento regional / Abstract: The aim of this dissertation is to identify evidences for which the recent Science, Technology and Innovation Policy of São Paulo State is incorporating regional development issues and what role it plays in the success of social and economic development in São Paulo regions. The literature review and empirical data converges to the identification of a new policy of Regional Development for Sao Paulo State and its microregions. This new policy has science, technology and innovation (STI) as its main tool. STI is capable for generating and adding value to productive sector and ensures appropriation of knowledge and income produced in the region. The main result of this dissertation is to identify the relationship between geographical proximity, the formation of human resources and knowledge generation, and the presence of the productive sector, as key variables for the success of regional development policies / Mestrado / Politica Cientifica e Tecnologica / Mestre em Política Científica e Tecnológica
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Redelabs : laboratórios experimentais em rede / Redelabs : networked experimental labs

Fonseca, Felipe Schmidt, 1978- 25 August 2018 (has links)
Orientador: Rafael de Almeida Evangelista / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T01:40:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fonseca_FelipeSchmidt_M.pdf: 842718 bytes, checksum: db69fc2f640a09ed14658b4ef1332c6f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta dissertação relata as descobertas, hipóteses e conclusões de pesquisa a respeito de um tipo de produção colaborativa que aproxima arte, ciência, ativismo, inovação, design, entre outras áreas. Concentra-se no surgimento, em anos recentes, dos assim chamados laboratórios experimentais - espaços articulados em rede nos quais tal produção toma corpo. São abordadas sob tal perspectiva denominações tais como labs de mídia, hackerspaces, Fablabs, entre outras. A pesquisa analisa alguns desses modelos sobre o pano de fundo do imaginário tecnoutópico, que afirma as tecnologias de informação como instrumentos de combate à burocratização e à alienação da sociedade. Com o objetivo de questionar a usual associação dos labs experimentais em termos gerais ao desenvolvimento da cibernética e em particular ao histórico do estadunidense MIT Media Lab, a pesquisa explora outros fios narrativos para os múltiplos campos que influenciam a formação dos labs. Debruça-se ainda sobre o diálogo entre, de um lado, o contexto contemporâneo dos labs em diferentes partes do mundo, e de outro a contribuição da ideia de uma cultura digital particularmente brasileira - que ao longo da última década proporcionou a construção de um discurso que aproximava software livre, diversidade cultural e políticas públicas de inclusão social. São debatidos em particular dois eixos da cultura digital brasileira: o compensatório, que buscaria corrigir distorções históricas incluindo populações na chamada era da informação; e o exploratório, que buscaria criticar e influenciar os caminhos futuros da articulação entre tecnologia e sociedade. A dissertação relata ainda pesquisa de campo desenvolvida na Finlândia, onde foram vivenciados a preparação de um festival internacional de arte e tecnologia, visitas a diferentes espaços que se situam no campo dos labs experimentais, e o contato pessoal com integrantes de grupos e coletivos que atuam na fronteira entre cultura e tecnologia. Tais experiências contribuíram para a compreensão de elementos importantes dos labs experimentais, principalmente o aspecto da não conformação às expectativas de uma sociedade cada vez mais regida pela transformação de toda expressão cultural em valor econômico. Esse entendimento é aprofundado ao fim da dissertação na imagem do lab experimental como espaço em branco que, ao mesmo tempo em que funciona como interface entre redes digitais e as dinâmicas particulares dos locais onde se encontram, também situam-se como instâncias de resistência e reinvenção frente ao capitalismo informacional de matriz cibernética / Abstract: This dissertation reports on discoveries, hypotheses and conclusions of research on a kind of collaborative production that connects arts, science, activism, innovation, design, among other areas. It focuses on the appearing, in recent years, of the so-called experimental labs ¿ network articulated spaces in which such a production comes into being. Under that perspective are approached denominations such as media labs, hackerspaces, Fablabs, among others. The research analyses some of these models against the background of techno-utopian imaginary, which asserts information technologies as tools to fight against burocracy and allienation of society. With the goal of questioning the usual association of experimental labs in general to the development of cybernetics and particularly to the history of MIT Media Lab in the USA, the research explores other narrative threads for the multiple fields that influence the formation of labs. Attention is paid to the dialogue between, on one side, the contemporary context of labs in different parts of the wirld, and on the other the contribution of the idea of a particularly brazilian digital culture ¿ which over the last decade offered the possibility of building a discourse that draws closer free (open) software, cultural diversity and public policies for social inclusion. Two particular axes of the brazilian digital culture are discussed: the compensatory, which seeks to correct historical distortions by including populations in the so-called information age; and the exploratory, that seeks to criticize and influence future paths of the articulation of technology and society. The dissertation reports as weel on field research undertaken in Finland, where were experimented the preparation of an international festival on arts and technology, visits to different spaces situated on the field of experimental labs, and personal contact with members of groups and collectives that work on the border of culture and technology. Such experiences contributed to the understanding of important elements of experimental labs, especially the aspect of non-conformation to the expectations of a society increasingly ruled by the transformation of every cultural expression into economic value. This understanding is deepened by the end of the dissertation on the image of the experimental lab as a blank space that, as well as working as an interface between digital networks and the particular dynamics of the places in which they are located, are also situated as instances of resistance and reinvention before the cybernetical informational capitalism / Mestrado / Divulgação Científica e Cultural / Mestre em Divulgação Científica e Cultural
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The political economy of Africa's cyberspace : understanding how South Africa's government policies on digital technologies are appropriated and influence development at grassroots level in Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal.

Singh, Sachil. January 2008 (has links)
Abstract not available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.
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South Korean universal service and Korean reunification: a policy analysis

Jeong, Bun-hee 28 August 2008 (has links)
Not available / text
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Fragmentos das taticas da cultura : tecnica e politica dos usos de midia / Fragments of tactics of culture : technique and politics of uses of media

Lara, Paulo Jose Olivier Moreira 03 June 2008 (has links)
Orientador: Renato Pinto Ortiz / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T07:48:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lara_PauloJoseOlivierMoreira_M.pdf: 10066425 bytes, checksum: 362ae3d1320b13fae690c1eeba2d886f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa verifica a adaptação do conceito de "tática" desenvolvido por Michel de Certeau e utilizado como fundação teórica de um movimento denominado Midia Tática. Com origens na Europa no final do século XX, este movimento herda modos de expressões culturais aliados à uma construção crítica do aparato tecnológico, notadamente das mídias eletrônicas e informáticas. Situamos a discussão sociológica a partir do conceito de racionalidade emergido no debate sobre recentes mutações na configuração do capitalismo e da tendências à novas formas de dominação que se erguem apoiadas no desenvolvimento tecnológico e na mudança das condutas erigidas das transformações do século XX. Para isso, situamos a Mídia Tática no contexto e discussões que deram origem a esta percepção e discutimos aspectos de recentes manifestações de oposição enquanto culturas que se utilizam desta noção em seus diferentes aspectos de intervenção. A intenção é observar os módulos de conflito e contradições que se dão quando o aumento das manipulações tecnológicas entram em contato com novas formações coletivas e padrões individuais e verificar os elementos políticos e culturais que resultam desta junção. / Abstract: This research verifies the adaptation of the concept of "tactic" developed by Michel de Certeau and its use as a theoretical foundation of a movement called Tactical Media. With it's origins in Europe at the end of the twentieth century, this movement inherits modes of cultural expressions allied to a critical construction of technological apparatus, especially the electronic and informatics media. We locate the discussion based on the sociological concept of rationality emerged at the debate on recent changes in capitalism's configuration and it's trends to new forms of domination which appear supported by technological development and changes of conducts erected by some of the transformations on the twentieth century. For this, we alocate the Tactical Media in the context and discussions that led to this perception and discuss aspects of recent demonstrations of opposition as cultures that make use of this concept in its various aspects of intervention. The intention is to look at the modules of conflict and contradictions that occur when the increase of technological manipulations join with new collective formations and individual patterns and check the political and cultural factors that results in this junction. / Mestrado / Sociologia da Cultura / Mestre em Sociologia
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The effects of social media on setting the agenda of traditional media

Moyo, Nompumelelo 01 1900 (has links)
This study explored how social media are setting the agenda of the traditional media and re-defining the role of the journalists. Content analysis was done to analyse the coverage of Jacob Zuma stories in newspapers and on Facebook, from the 1st of February until the 30th of June 2018.The sample for the study was drawn from three local newspapers, the Citizen, the Sowetan, the NewAge (AfroVoice), as well as the Facebook page called #Zumamustfall. This was done to determine if newspapers which are traditional media were being influenced by social media in what stories to report on. Results from the study showed that social media are influential in building an agenda for the traditional media and in particular, with the Zuma story. In the same vein, it emerged that traditional and social media set the agenda for each other. Based on these findings the research recommends that other social media sites including Twitter be used in similar research to determine their effects on agenda setting of traditional media (newspapers). / Communication Science / M.A. (Communication Science)

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